United States Department of the Interior Office of Education QUESTIONNAIRE ON MILITARY EDUCATION TO FORMER STUDENTS OF MILITARY SCIENCE IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES 1. In your opinion, has the R. O. T. C. military course of study a definite educational value of its own? Check: Yes No 2. Did the R. O. T. C. contribute anything important or unique to your education? Yes 3. How did the quality of the R. O. T. C. courses, as respect to content and organization, compare with other courses given at your institution? Below average in quality.. Average in quality. Above average in quality. 4. From your own experience was the time you spent on the training justified by the results obtained? 5. In your opinion, did military training aid or make easier the development in your own life of one or more of the qualities or characteristics listed below: 6. In what way, if any, has the military education you have received been of economic value to you since graduation? (More than one item may be 7. In your opinion does the R. O. T. C. course of instruction tend to produce a militaristic attitude inimical to world peace? 8. Judging by your own experience: Yes (a) Do you favor the R. O. T. C. as a required subject for the first two (b) Would you make the entire course optional? Yes ------- No (c) Would you abolish the R. O. T. C. from collegiate institutions? 9. Remarks: (Please express yourself freely on any phase of collegiate military training.) Please give calendar years in which you took collegiate military training. 19____ 19____ 19.--- 19____ LIST OF INSTITUTIONS INCLUDED IN THIS STUDY The following 54 institutions contributed to this study. They are classified according to their several types as indicated by the abbreviations given. L. G.-land-grant college or university; S. = State university; M. = municipal university; M. C.-military college, essentially; P. = privately controlled or endowed universities and colleges. The table also indicates those schools in which R. O. T. C. training is required and those in which it is elective. The number of graduates of these institutions of whom inquiry was made is given, also the number and percentage of replies received from these graduates. GENERAL ANALYSIS OF THE FINDINGS In the following section appears the analysis of questionnaire returns from the 10,166 graduates of 54 colleges and universities, who have experienced R. O. T. C. training. 1. In your opinion, has the R. O. T. C. military course of study a definite educational value of its own?. 2. Did the R. O. T. C. contribute anything important or unique to your education?. 4. From your own experience was the time spent on the training justified by the results obtained?. 10, 064 7. In your opinion does the R. O. T. C. course of instruction tend to produce a militaristic attitude inimical to world peace?.... 10, 051 8. Judging by your own experience: 9, 636 (a) Do you favor the R. O. T. C. as a required subject for the first two years of college?. (b) Would you make the entire course optional?.. (c) Would you abolish the R. O. T. C. from collegiate institutions?.. 1.5 98.5 9, 203 3. How did the quality of the R. O. T. C. courses, in respect to content and organization, compare with other courses given at your institution? 5. In your opinion, did military training aid or make easier the development in your own life of one or more of the qualities or characteristics listed below: 6. In what way, if any, has the military education you have received been of economic value to you since graduation? In improving physical development.. In helping to obtain first employment. 49.3 5, 014 1,265 1 For purpose of clearness, questions calling for "yes" or "no" replies are grouped together. ? There were 576 fewer replies to question 8 (b) than 8 (a), that number evidently considering question 8 (a) as covering the ground. NOTE.-Approximately 400 questionnaires were returned with no writing on the back page. ANALYSIS OF FINDINGS BY INSTITUTIONS The returns for each institution listed are given in the following more complete table. For clearness, the order of questions is changed in the table. Answers which involve both "yes" and "no" are listed first, followed by those which are not readily reducible to both positive and negative replies. Variations in the total of replies to each question reflect the number who failed to answer the particular question. Sixty-six replies received after final tabulation, while shown in the total do not appear under institutional classification. |